Total Fertility Rate

The definition of total fertility rate is the average number of children born per women in her life time. For a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1, if it is higher than 2.1 than the population is increasing but if it is lower than the population decreasing. We learned that the world TFR from last year was 2.4. The US TFR is 2.01 so that means that the population is decreasing. But in Nigeria the population is decreasing a lot because the TFR is 6.89.  In Germany the TFR is low, but they are trying to get more people to move to Germany. So, people from Turkey go to Germany to get a job and this is helping Germany with their low population. After we wrote notes we answered questions using the World Fact Book from the CIA website. We found out that the infant mortality rate in the US is 5.8 and we are ranked 169 in the world. I also learned that there are 326,625,791 people in the US. One of the last things we learned was that 82.79% of Mexicans are Christian, and that means that there are more Mexicans that are Christian than there are Americans and Canadians.

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